Missouri Agriculture Director Chris Chinn tells Brownfield she wants state use labels for dicamba in place this week so that the temporary ban on the herbicide ban can be lifted.
“That’s really what we want to do, that’s what the companies want to do,” Director Chinn told Brownfield Ag News Monday. “[The chemical companies] have been very good at communicating with us and working with us so that we can hurry up and get this ban lifted so that we can get this tool back in the hands of farmers.”
The ban was imposed following more than 130 complaints fielded by the Missouri Department of Agriculture about damage from possible dicamba drift, according to Director Chinn.
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